If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

Reality is what you can get away with.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.